Jules Coffey

[screenfreelookatme]

Look… My eldest child, who is now 3, was an extremely early talker, with long sentences by 18 months. I try to give the benefit of the doubt, because he spoke so well that people wouldn’t believe me without hearing it. But even he was only babbling and saying Mama at 7.5 months! He could understand words like boob but didn’t say them. Surely Cedar isn’t really saying “good girl”?!

I dunno. My newborn was saying, “mummy can I please try some of your spiulina panna cotta” just this morning, so it’s possible

 

[Alice Smith]

Why not just go to the shop and not tell anyone if you’re worried about people coming at you?

 

[jmareem]

All I’m reading is “I’M A GIANT WANKER” my god give it a rest Jules, we get it you’re organic and free range blah blah blah. Urge it’s just so irritating

Just say EGGS
Just say BACON

 

[ThenThereWasFur]

I'm pretty new to Tattle and I am so unsurprised to find a thread on Jules Coffey. I have to say, she has irritated more than any influencer I have ever come across. I haven't followed her for years though, she is just too vile. We had our babies at the same time and her posts were so ick. She wasted so much time giving minute by minute blow by blow accounts of her breastfeeding issues. Like, it wasn't easy for me either but we really didn't need to know how many ml she expressed at each pumping. Her very honest account of motherhood was utter drivel. I am a writer and I used her as the basis for a very vapid, self focused, narc mother who dresses her kids only in organic linen and only lets her kids play with wooden toys as a character in a short story. I'm pretty sure it was around the time she renovated while pregnant cause I stole that too Poor Jules is just always so hard done by.

 

[jumble]

It’s pretty sad that she is so caught up in wanting oRgAnIc food for her kids, that she can’t just relax and enjoy a holiday. Everything is based around food and making sure something healthy is available. We live a really healthy lifestyle, but there is no way I would go on holiday and base every outing on food, and packing a picnic, and making most meals at the accommodation. It’s a holiday ffs, relax and enjoy it. My hubby would flip a lid if we paid thousands to go on a trip where we basically did nothing different to our normal lives. There’s been no day trips, they missed the jubilee, they don’t seem to be eating at old English pubs. Enjoy this time, it’s not the end of the world if the kids have some non organic food, or even *gasp* junk food for a few weeks. They have Spain and NYC after the UK, and it’ll be a total flop.
Like, you’re in the UK in summer! Go into London and hang out on a common, have a cider in the sun. Go to Bath, go to Wales, the Lake District. Get the train for a quick weekend in Paris or Belgium. DO SOMETHING!!!

 

[makeitstop]

Poor baby loves the play mat because it has colour all she has ever known is beige.

 

[justjumpingonhere]

I know it’s all fake friends for the Gram, but her and Sarah Kearns are the most unlikely pairing. Jules going on about first paddlepops or her kids not knowing how to eat an ice block. Sarah’s kids guzzling soft drink and milkshakes 24/7. And yeah, my friends and I parent our kids differently. But Jules’s entire smug attitude over it is not comparable with the Kearns at all.

I think their parenting styles are completely different but their personalities are quite similar. ie, they think they’re superior to everyone else, they barely work but people just ‘don’t understand’ how busy they are, they’re bitchy and judgemental and materialistic and shallow.
Sarah packages this with smarmy parenting advice and barely concealed hostility and Jules packages it with “I’m just an anxious harmless little bird” and barely concealed superiority.

 

[GeorgieBox]

My kids would still be hungry after that, it really annoys me when people eat out and don’t just let their kids enjoy the experience too. There are a few people on Instagram who make a point of saying they make their kids eat veggies before they get to share a kids meal.. Why are people so hell bent on controlling everything that goes into their kids mouths? Mine eat a really healthy diet 80/90% of the time, but when we go out for dinner or go to parties, they get to choose what they eat. And on any day, they decide when they’re full. I’d never limit what they can eat, especially at meal times. She really limits their food, the dinners she’s shown are more like what my kids have as snacks, that is not enough for dinner. There’s no fat, carbs or protein to fill them up. It seems she also limits her husbands food too…
It’s obviously a part of her anxiety/ocd/neurosis, but honestly, she needs help if, to feel in control of her life, she needs to control her families eating habits. My husband would not accept this at all.

Beautifully said. The food she’s presented as what those kids eat seems to not fill them up if Hadley is always asking for more or going into the kitchen for her own snacks and what not. If I were a kid running around, I’m not sure veggie sticks and some seaweed is going to fill me up. It’s sad because she has on more than one occasion labelled treat food as naughty or lectured Hadley on why she can’t have it. What kind of messaging is that plus this in that picture I can have my chips but the girls can’t? What the actual fuck? This is like perfect breeding ground for bingeing/hoarding food. I can nearly guarantee it. We have a lot better information now (plus misinformation unfortunately ) talking about intuitive eating, trusting kids natural instincts, not putting labels on bad/good food etc.
I find her moralising about food (nitrate free bacon - paying twice the price for no reason) so out of touch and indicative of how she must believe you can be a good person/prevent disease JUST by eating organic veggies.
Newsflash/ it’s a lot more complicated than that. In this climate of rocketing food prices, it’s fucking snobbish and elitist. Some people are just trying to keep a roof over their head, their kids fed and car fuelled.
I would like to know who is earnestly following her and finds her content interesting. She’s not funny or witty, she sounds like she has anxiety, and it’s uncomfortable to watch.

 

[Thod]

STFU Jules and address your obsession with food is not healthy for your children.

As a parent, i find it really upsetting that so much of her content is around her own food issues. We know that girls in particular growing up in this era are struggling with body image and eating disorders at higher rates than ever before.

Why on earth would you make fun of your child for eating? Far out!

 

[ellobird]

Jules bingo for a Friday morning -

- mentions what a child eats x 2
- complains about working & having 3 kids
- shows something that identifies her child’s school

all within 1 hour

 

[GeorgieBox]

I’m so sad for this poor girl. I think Jules is trying to be funny or something? But she clearly has really deep issues with food and is 100% projecting them on to these kids. No doubt if she hadn’t restricted Hadley so much when she was younger (and now), she’d be more in tune with her body and hunger and fullness queues. She’s constantly posting about stopping binge behaviour from Hadley, instead of letting her figure it out.

It’s frustrating to watch. She constantly positions both her girls as one is the good, neat as a pin type, organised and the other is chaotic, messy etc and seemed to really want a boy as the third. I find the stereotypes frustrating. Girls can be whatever they want and only having girls she seems to be set on perpetuating stereotypes on girls being submissive. The eating stuff seems to be a problematic grab for content because she is boring and unrelatable otherwise. She also tends to lean into anxiety/neurosis instead of addressing it or not projecting it onto her kids. “My pristine house is messy because I have children” being a shock or causing her to spiral is just insulting and ridiculous. Get over yourself. How have you had three and not twigged they are loud, creative, intense children who are NOT mini adults. I hope Hadley gives her hell and keeps to her core. I want to see more girls being much more confident and assertive. I want to see them swearing and taking up space and not apologising. I get so irritated watching her stories because I find it so out of touch, and devoid of any gratitude for her life.

 

[ellobird]

Hey Jules, when you get married you change all your documentation and ID if you change your name. You didn’t get married last week, you’ve had plenty of time to change it

Now she’s saying there’s no team available to do a name change on the weekend so she’s got a second seat on hold and will have to take marriage Cert to airport & hope for the best. Firstly for someone who used to work for an airline she doesn’t know much, and secondly she’s saying the other seat is in a different section of the plane, yes but if you use that one, your other one gets cancelled and you’d sit in the original location - come on!

 

[Beakmouth]

Thank goodness they’re “grass fed and preservative free” sausages. I was so worried for a minute that they were beef sausages from Woolies.

 

[GeorgieBox]

I find her draining because I think she’s trying to be relatable… like who wants to come across as smarmy and Pollyanna with healthy kids, lovely new home, clearly not short of a quid, etc. but it comes across as absolutely tone deaf and out of touch with reality. Some people do a beautiful job of sharing their lives and striking a balance between banal / normal and gratitude / inspiration which doesn’t make people feel like shit. Jules is basically just sharing every boring stream of consciousness thought which makes her sound like ungrateful and completely unaware of how her privilege sounds. Especially in this day and age.

She has made her entire boring and neurotic personality about eating “healthy” and shaming a kid who is a normal kid. It’s fkn weird.

 

[GeorgieBox]

I think she just put her heart and soul into seeing Steph Pase make money off her planners and wanted to do the same thing.

 

[ellobird]

Yeah this ain’t it Jules, how drawn out was this announcement for a frickin planner

its freaking huge! who wants a 500 page brick to lug around documenting things an app can tell you? Why isn’t it an app with a smaller notebook for journaling/bump photos? Clearly targeting first time Mums as well, ain’t nobody got time for that in subsequent pregnancies, it’s a struggle to remember how many weeks pregnant you are when you’ve got other kids to care for!

 

[trashhiika]

I think their parenting styles are completely different but their personalities are quite similar. ie, they think they’re superior to everyone else, they barely work but people just ‘don’t understand’ how busy they are, they’re bitchy and judgemental and materialistic and shallow.
Sarah packages this with smarmy parenting advice and barely concealed hostility and Jules packages it with “I’m just an anxious harmless little bird” and barely concealed superiority.

So well described at the end! She definitely plays up to the narrative of being an anxious harmless little bird and I couldn’t agree more, although different parenting styles, both her and beaky kearns are so superficial & shallow.

How’s Jules latest rant about the mice. She’s “shaken to her core” guys. Over a mouse. Because GASP she can’t even bear the idea of a random cat in her immaculate home. God spare me. Tone deaf much? Children were just shot to dead while at school across the globe, but these bloody influencers live in a bubble don’t they!

 

[jumble]

Not me a first time mum giving my 9m old weetbix for breakfast and spag bol/salmon patties/mashed veg for dinner she would be appalled!

Ha! That food sounds amazing for 9 month old, what a spread!! Unless it’s not all organic, if it’s not organic then that’s child abuse, obviously.

 

[lisaann13]

Why are they even going!?!?! Could have waited another 2-3 years would be so much easier. I think maybe she said to visit family in London? Could be wrong. If so you don’t need to go for 7 weeks and add in USA, could of just cut the trip in half just done England would of been less stress. It’s almost like she thrives of chaos

 

[GeorgieBox]

I don’t understand the play centre thing either, if you have such a thing about them and it is literally the only activity you can do with the two older girls, get your husband to take them on his own, stay home with the baby and then bathe the kids afterwards. But even if it’s wet there’s plenty of things you can do without needing to go to a play centre if it makes you THAT uncomfortable

I appreciate this is a source of anxiety for her and acknowledge that, but this woman complains about everything. Everything is a source of anxiety or a neurosis of hers. Is it for attention/validation or is this like journaling for her? Either way it comes off like whining. Whining about passport delays, whining about packing for Europe. Whining about cleaning her beige house. All day every day. Not much gratitude, and when it does come, it’s insincere AF. People are having babies in underground shelters in Ukraine. People are living in tents due to the rental crisis. The public health system is crippled. American parents (and everyone else) are terrified to send their kids to school. Does she ever think what would this sound like to other people? Do I need to get a grip? Do I need to *gasp* maybe get some perspective and develop some resilience? Cos it wouldn’t hurt.